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Machine Learning Engineering Manager, App SW

Sunnyvale, California USA💼 Full-time💰 $336,400–$336,400🗓 2026-05-29 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead a new Application Engineering team to localize and advance autonomous driving technology for the US market, adapting Wayve's AV stack to US road infrastructure, driving behaviors, and regulations.

Role type

Founding Machine Learning Engineering Manager (Autonomous Driving)

Builds

US-specific autonomy features and AV capabilities tailored to local road conditions and regulatory landscapes.

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles (AV), Robotics, Machine Learning, Systems Integration

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Robotics and autonomy system development, team leadership and hiring, full-cycle software development, OEM partnership management, strategic vision setting, cross-cultural communication, stakeholder management

Preferred skills

US road environment and regulatory landscape familiarity, machine learning for real-time decision-making or perception, prior experience scaling robotic systems

Technologies

Robotics frameworks, ML frameworks, AV stacks, software engineering tools

Responsibilities

Build and lead a self-sufficient AV development team in the US, deliver autonomy capabilities tailored to local road conditions, drive full-cycle development from needs identification to production deployment, work closely with OEM partners to capture requirements and shape joint plans, establish relationships with product and vehicle operations teams

Seniority

Founding Manager, hands-on IC with leadership scope

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